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Hmm...

Which manual said that? - I'm not familiar with it... You probably won't be
able to move the /var directory - certainly not on a system that's not
running single user (at the 'boot:' prompt put '-s' then hit enter)...

Even if the system is running multi-user - you might run into problems later
with a moved 'var' directory...

Shot in the dark: It didn't mention anything about 'linking' the /var
directory to '/usr/var' or anything?

I've not heard of doing this before...

Regards,

Karl

Natalie Bales wrote:
> 
> We are NEWBIES and we are trying to install and configure FreeBSD.  I
> was reading the installation manual going through everything step.  The
> manual suggested to move /var to /usr/var.   I copied the /var directory
> to /usr/var and then tried to remove /var from the root directory.  I
> can not successfully remove /var.
> 
> I continue to get an error saying
> 
> rm: /var: Device busy.
> 
> Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> natalie

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